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Maoist crimes go unpunished
News, Associated Press, Published on 30/08/2016
» The image of the teacher's body tied to a tree and riddled with bullets still haunts his son 14 years later. Communist militants allegedly dragged the Nepalese man from the class he was teaching and then killed him for refusing to give part of his salary to fund their bloody rebellion.
Republican leaders could be nearing Trump breaking point
News, Associated Press, Published on 15/08/2016
» The Republican Party could be nearing a breaking point with Donald Trump.
Islamic State tightens grip on women held as sex slaves
News, Associated Press, Published on 07/07/2016
» The posting in Arabic is chilling. A girl for sale: "Virgin. Beautiful. 12 years old.... Her price has reached $12,500 [440,000 baht] and she will be sold soon.''
A portrait of the victims of the Bangladesh militant attack
News, Associated Press, Published on 05/07/2016
» The deaths in the militant attack on a restaurant in Bangladesh were at once random, and not so random.
Sri Lanka on cautious path to peace
News, Associated Press, Published on 06/06/2016
» For seven years, the ethnic Tamil housewife has waited for news of a son who vanished near the frenzied end of Sri Lanka's quarter-century-long civil war. After so much time, she has little faith that the Sinhalese-majority government will help solve such mysteries and heal old wounds.
Show of frustration at Egypt's courts
News, Associated Press, Published on 02/06/2016
» Egyptian activist Sanaa Seif decided she had had enough of Egypt's justice system.
Tense game of political brinksmanship
News, Associated Press, Published on 30/05/2016
» American ships and fighter jets manoeuvring across the South China Sea and the Sea of Japan represent the "new normal" in US-Pacific relations despite rising tensions with China and Moscow.
Boko Haram still poses threat months after 'technical victory'
News, Associated Press, Published on 20/04/2016
» On the front line against Boko Haram, no one boasts of having "technically" won the war.